Research overview: road mortality of leopard cats on rural Asian roads

Across their range, leopard cats living in farmland and forest-edge mosaics suffer heavy road mortality, a leading documented cause of death in well-studied populations such as Taiwan. This overview synthesises roadkill-monitoring and spatial-modelling studies identifying collision hotspots tied to road density, traffic, habitat adjacency and crossing behaviour. It examines mitigation including warning systems, fencing, culvert and underpass use, and citizen-science roadkill reporting that has powered analysis in several countries. The synthesis frames roads as a pervasive threat to a small felid otherwise tolerant of human-modified landscapes, and highlights data-driven hotspot targeting as a practical conservation tool.